Maybe it’s because I played them too late, but while I mostly had a blast playing HL2, the first one never clicked for me.
I know, it’s been very influential and new when it released, but it was still quite straight a FPS game. Whereas HL2 is like a crazy theme park of different ambiences and mechanics.
Yeah, it’s probably terrifying at first.
I’m sure they’d get used to it though, almost any kind of riding/driving a vehicle is going against all your preservation instincts when it’s the first time you do it.
What, are you saying we shouldn’t build the Torment Nexus as envisioned in sci-fi classic ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus’?
Okay, that looks pretty cool.
I remember the sense of Pride and Accomplishment everyone got from that game back then.
Also every Jarl in Skyrim. Or your own character, if you try sitting on their thrones.
I’ve always found that pose quite funny.
YouTube pushes whatever format feels popular to them at the time, like when they started giving absurd weight to shorts.
Even content creators that pretty much only do long, focussed videos started to hack useless bits of them to put in shorts as an aside, just because the algorithm would make their channel basically invisible without a few of them.
And then of course YouTube will prioritize those in all feeds, even if you’re watching on a fucking TV app.
If youtube starts the same kind of shit with vertical streaming, you can be sure they’re going to pop everywhere, no matter how fitting the format is.
General opinion seems to be this is definitely a game.
So now their solution to the whole “don’t you guys have phone?” situation is to keep designing for mobile but port those everywhere.
I think I’ll keep not giving a shit, thank you very much.
Warner Bros is trying way too hard at this multiverse thing.
They did say that GOG didn’t mean “Good Old Games” anymore at one point, trying to change their image a bit, but even then they never really stopped doing that really.
They chased lost licences for a bunch of old CRPG, they made preconfigured DosBox packages for games that needed them…
They’d be crazy to stop that. As you said, it’s one of the things that set them slightly apart from the competition.
Cool declaration of intent, and they definitely do a lot for tweaking and packaging old games so they’re in a playable state.
But it’s a bit amusing to see The Witcher in there. I mean, yeah, I certainly hope you’re maintaining that one.
Isn’t that the wreck of a port with botched controls, horribly misshapen characters and “enhanced” textures that misspelled environmental text everywhere? Occasionally completely missing jokes by doing so?
Was it supposed to be fixed in any way at some point?
Checks out, the Pokémon universe was actually just Japan all that time.
Google Game Boy Light.
Also mostly the plot of Ernest Cline’s Armada, with a megaton of unsufferable 'tude and pointless 80’s references sprinkled on it. Those references include “the last Starfighter”, of course. It’s terrible.
The podcast “372 pages we’ll never get back” with Mike and Connor from MST3K/rifftrax did its second season on it. Kind of a book club with books they assume they’re going to hate (mostly). First season was Ready Player One, from Cline too, so they chose this one next because they were astonished that Armada could be considered the bad one compared to RP1.
Animal Crossing is a special case (and one that made a lot of people angry back when the game released).
One console is tied to one “island”, which means all accounts on the same switch play in the same town. Each has got their own house and inventory, and can contribute to the island in some ways…
But only the main account, who started the save, is “resident representative”, which means they’re the only one who can build or relocate stuff, and who can start community projects needed for the island to progress.
So yeah, all other players have an inferior experience. Which is a bit of a baffling design for a family game such as this.
Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while… Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?
It’s not a actual writing tool, it’s a basic text file editor.
I was confused reading that comic, because in French checkers is called “dames”.
So yeah, even in that game, the guy would barge in and command you to “lady” him.
My question would be : are XT clones conditioned exactly the same? Because if so, XT-23 is lying. They do enjoy doing this shit and they’ve all been jerks since XT-1.